Trundle



(No Model.)

G. LAYNG. TRUNDLE;

No. 285,416. Patentd Sept. 25, 1883.

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ATTORNEYS.

N PETERS. Phmulhogmr. Wash TATES GEORGE LAYNG, OF VVOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

TRUNDLE.,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,416, dated September 25, 1883.

Application filed February 10, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE LAYNG, of \Vorcester, in the county of lVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trundles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of my improved trundle or 1100p, and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate eorreand it consists in, the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the hoop, which is provided with brace rods or spokes B, crossing each other at right angle, two at each end of a short central axle, c, and passing diametrically across from one side of the hoop to the other. These braces pass through perforations D at the ends of the axle C at right angles to each other, one outside the other, and thus serve to secure the axle in the center, the perforations at one end of the axle being at an angle of forty-five degrees to those at the other end, so that the braces or spokes will extend and be fastened to eight equidistant places upon the inside of the hoop. A disk, E, is fastened upon the axle, inside the braces, and is provided with two or more projecting lugs or pins, F, adapted to engage and operate a spring-actuated hammer, G, which strikes a bell, H, suspended by an arm, I, from the shaft. The inner end of this arm is provided with a sleeve, J, which turns upon the axle, and the bell is fastened to the lower end of the-arm upon a laterallyextending lug, K, and serves by its weight to keep the arm pending in a vertical position when the hoop is propelled, the axle turning in the sleeve J. The hammer is pivoted upon a laterally-projecting stud, L, upon the side of the arm, and a spiral spring, M, is wrapped around the stud and fastened at one end to the hammer, and at the other end to the arm, so that it will force the lower end down upon the bell when the upper end has been engaged and released by one of the studs F upon the disk. In this manner it will be seen that the bell will be struck as the hoop revolves when propelled, the bell and arm remaining in a ver-- tical suspended position by their weight.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. Ina hoop or trundle, the-combination of the hoop A, having diametrically-extended braces 13, passing through perforations D in the ends of the axle G, with a bell, H, suspended vertically from the axle O, and means for striking it, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a hoop or trundle, the combination of the hoop A, having four diametrically-extended braces, 13, passing through perforations D in the ends of the short axle 0, two at each end, crossing each other at right angles, and the two at one end of the shaft being at angles of forty-five degrees with those at the other end, disk E, fastened upon the shaft and having studs F, and arm I, having sleeve J at its upper end, bell H at its lower end, and

hammer G, pivoted upon stud L, and having.

GEORGE LAYNG;

. Witnesses:

J. HENRY HILL, HENRY 0. RICE. 

